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August 23, 2007

"Hypocrite"

Prayer for the Dead

Sufian Thauri heard that a funeral was to take place, and he followed the coffin. He prayed at the graveside.

After the service, people began to say what a good man the deceased had been.

'I should not have prayed for that man', said Sufian, 'for when you hear people speak well of a man, it is generally because he is a hypocrite, whether he knew it or not. If a man is not a hypocrite, there are always many who do not speak well of him.'

Source: "The Way of The Sufi", by Idries Shah

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Tarek is from Pakistan. He is not officially participating in any Silsila (chain of Sufis), however he accompanies them and sits in them, especially Qalandaris. Away from miseries of rigid bigotry or topsy-turvydom of blind liberalim, he loves the message of love spread by Sufis.